Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/5] xen/pciback: Support pci_reset_function, aka FLR or D3 support.

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 01:58:50PM -0500, Don Dutile wrote:
> On 01/05/2012 05:24 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 00:46 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >>We use the __pci_reset_function_locked to perform the action.
> >>Also on attaching ("bind") and detaching ("unbind") we save and
> >>restore the configuration states. When the device is disconnected
> >>from a guest we use the "pci_reset_function" to also reset the
> >>device before being passed to another guest.
> >
> >Currently I thought the toolstack was supposed to do the reset (by
> >writing to the reset node in sysfs) as it was (de)assigning devices
> >to/from guests. That's not to say that there isn't an argument for
> >preferring to do it kernels side but it would be interesting to make
> >that argument explicitly.
> >
> >I guess the toolstack doesn't currently save/restore the configuration
> >state, could it though? I guess the state is all available in sysfs. On
> pci_reset_function() saves the config state before doing a fcn-level reset.
> 
> the libvirt toolstack handles the unbind/reset/bind functionality
> and is used by kvm for it's device assignment.

The KVM assigned PCI module does the call as well via the ioctls when
assigning/de-assigning the PCI device. Look in 'kvm_free_assigned_device'
and in 'kvm_vm_ioctl_assign_device'.

Is that what you mean by the unbind/reset/bind functionality - the ioctl
call?